The stages of learning for sustainable business

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Scott Boylston describes the four stages of learning, and explains how sustainable business practices are following the course of action by becoming more and more competent in their sustainable practices.

- You might have noticed that even as we talk…about changing the way we think,…altering our world view or paradigm,…a lot of what we've discussed so far in this course…is about imagining new ways to interact with…and create our material world.…In this video, we'll look at the historical context…of how our businesses have been learning…to become more sustainable.…In the 1970s, Noel Burch defined what he called…the four stages of learning.…And he defined them this way:…Unconscious Incompetence, Conscious Incompetence,…Conscious Competence, and Unconscious Competence.…

If you think back to a time when you were unaware…of how bad you were at something…that you are very good at now,…you're familiar with this process.…For example, you can probably remember…when you realized you couldn't draw…as well as you first thought.…There's a period of time when you were blissfully…unaware of just how bad you were.…This stage is what's called Unconscious Incompetence.…You lack even a smidgen of training,…in part because you don't realize…

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11/6/2017

The world is facing a number of environmental, economic, and social challenges. Our future depends on sustainable solutions that improve our lives, without adversely affecting our neighbors or our ecosystems. Designers have a unique role to play in the way forward. Watch this course to explore the tools, resources, and best practices of sustainable design. Designer, educator, and author Scott Boylston covers the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainability. He walks through technical and social innovations that are making real change possible, across a variety of disciplines.